"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 01:07:20 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > On 6/22/2014 12:38 AM, sf wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:20:26 -0400, jmcquown >
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Maybe you'd like driving a couple or three miles from your house to
>> >>> pick
>> >>> up your mail. I sure wouldn't. <shrug>
>> >>>
>> >> I don't see what the BFD is. Bills are paid online so it's not
>> >> mandatory to pick up mail every day. They pick up the mail when they
>> >> go outside the gate to shop or visit. So junk mail builds up in the
>> >> box. So what.
>> >>
>> > You're making some huge assumptions. Everyone pays their bills
>> > online?!
>>
>> Most of my bills are automatic payment. What few aren't are usually paid
>> online. Only ever had a few that I could not. They were medical bills.
>> All but one allowed a phone payment.
>> >
>> > Sure, I pay my bills online. You cannot assume everyone does. Even
>> > though I've opted out of paper billing I still get paper bills for the
>> > important things. Like electricity and water. Know why? Because
>> > electronic devices sometimes FAIL.
>>
>> My mom pays her bills in person. Some elderly people do. She will pay
>> via
>> snail mail if she has to but she thinks it is safer to take the mail into
>> the post office. Never mind the fact that the one post office she
>> usually
>> goes to was the place of many robberies some years back. Robber would
>> stand
>> in there, wait for someone to come in and buy stamps or some such thing,
>> take their purse or wallet and run.
>
> Just because some people are stuck in the past doesn't mean that
> civilization can't advance anyway. My mother lived in the country.
> Her bills, packages and important mail were sent to her PO and
> everything else went to the mailbox at the end of her driveway. It's
> not hard to figure out how to do it - she certainly didn't need to
> collect daily from the PO. In this day and age of paying bills
> online, there's even less reason make the trip.
>
I know. I would think that most people would either pay bills online these
days or have automatic payments. Even my friend with no Internet does
automatic payments for many things.

I was surprised though that my car payment wasn't automatic but... I think
they did it that way because in order to get a lower overall price, we had
to go with Ford financing which is at a higher interest rate. But... We can
refinance after we've made 4 payments which we will do. Unless we have
enough to pay it off by then. And then we'll do that.